Someone signed up using my email address

Someone else signed up to itunes using my email address some time ago. I certainly did not verify it, but I did hit unsubscribe links in the emails. Despite this, I kept receiving unwanted apple marketing material. In my latest attempt to make the emails stop I reset the password, signed in and unsubscribed from the apple ID site. I also changed the primary email address to a throwaway email address, as I don't want to be notified every time this person purchases something.
The problem is that now this person probably won't be able to access his/her account because the password and AppleID have both changed. I don't see this as my problem, but if anyone from Apple support reads this could they please let this person access this account if they are contacted by them. I did not change any contact details or the security question, so they should be able to answer those as they were entered.

jel wrote:
hi there.
I've been using Skype for years now with a single Skype name, and I noticed some time ago when doing a password reset that someone has signed up for Skype using my email address. I presume because they failed to spell their own email address correctly. (I get a TON of email coming in addressed incorrectly for various people (not spam) because people can't spell their own name or the name of their friend or acquaintaince - quite annoying really. But I guess that's a problem with using a gmail account.)
So now I have 3 Skype names associated with my email address, when there should be only 1. Is there any way to have those 2 extra Skype names removed from my email address? I searched on Skype and both of them belong to someone with the same name 'Gabriel' in the United States (I'm in Australia). I assume it's the same person.
I just don't want people searching for my email address and thinking that person is me...
Thanks.
you can simply contact customer support to request to unlink your email address from those unknown accounts;
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Are you sure it isn't you? Apple sends e-mail to the address provided which means that even if somebody did have the wild idea of signing up for an account with an address that isn't theirs, it would just end up with you receiving their e-mail and essentially being able to take over their account.
By the way, "I'd" = "I would". I.D. = "Identity".

Someone has been using my email address as their Apple ID

Hello,
Someone has been using MY email address as their Apple ID. When I started setting up my own Apple ID with my own email address, I eventually had to reset the associated password, thinking I had made this Apple ID earlier. Then when I logged into the account, it turned out to be someone else's account. Help, how do I fix this so I have my Apple ID associated with my email address and the other person knows to change their Apple ID email address?
Thanks!

I had this happen a few years ago. Someone created an iTunes account using one of my Gmail email addresses. I got the email to verify the account. I verified it, and then hit the forgot my password link. Reset the password and logged in. There I could see the ladies name, address and credit card. I changed it all to my name and removed the payment info and never entered my card number so they account could not be used.
Never had a problem again.

Someone else is using my email address as their apple id?

I am trying to create an apple ID, but it states one already exists using that email address; although when I try to reset the password, I don't receive the emails and if I try to answer the security questions, it wont accept my DoB? Help... how can someone else have registered my email address as their apple ID?

You'll probably have to contact iTunes store support to straighten this out. They deal with Apple ID issues all the time. You can contact them here: http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.

Someone subscribed using my email address

I got an e-mail that confirmed that I made a subscription to Skype. However I did not subscribe to Skype and the e-mail was addressed to a name other than mine. Now I have a Skype Name that is not my own name and that I won't use, but I can not delete it...
I don't like that someone can make a Skype account and use my e-mail address, I had no e-mail to confirm the subscription, it just went through the process without my consent. How is this possible and what should I do to delete this Skype name that I don't want to have linked to my e-mail address?

IaninHK wrote:
I have just found out someone else is using my email address as there primary skype one. I have managed to log into their skype account but can't delete the email address as its listed as the primary one - I found out about this as I was getting skype emails which weren't releveant to my personal skype account. Suggestions? It doesn't look like an account that is used very often but I still don't wany my email associated with them for obvious reasons!
I think Skype doesn't send verification emails when creating an account, so anyone can register an account using anyone's email address, as well as non-existing ones). You can contact customer service to report that unknown account, and to request to unlink your email address from that unknown account.
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Someone else using my email address

I have just found out someone else is using my email address as there primary skype one. I have managed to log into their skype account but can't delete the email address as its listed as the primary one - I found out about this as I was getting skype emails which weren't releveant to my personal skype account. Suggestions? It doesn't look like an account that is used very often but I still don't wany my email associated with them for obvious reasons!

IaninHK wrote:
I have just found out someone else is using my email address as there primary skype one. I have managed to log into their skype account but can't delete the email address as its listed as the primary one - I found out about this as I was getting skype emails which weren't releveant to my personal skype account. Suggestions? It doesn't look like an account that is used very often but I still don't wany my email associated with them for obvious reasons!
I think Skype doesn't send verification emails when creating an account, so anyone can register an account using anyone's email address, as well as non-existing ones). You can contact customer service to report that unknown account, and to request to unlink your email address from that unknown account.
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HT204088 Someone else has the SAME eMail Address as ME

Today I received an eMail from Apple to MY Apple ID / eMail Address. The Name that the eMail was supposed to be going to however was NOT ME. This has actually happened several times in the past several months, not just to me, but also to my wife. An eMail comes into our eMail Box for me.com, but the person it is directed to is NOT either one of us - but the eMail Addresses ARE ours.
The eMail I received today was for comeone in Arizona (I live in Washington State). It was an eMailed Receipt for something that customer had purchased in that Arizona Apple Store. So since I got his eMail, did he NOT get the Receipt? How can this happen? Are there no quality control checks on eMail Addresses so it's possible for MULTIPLE people to end up with the SAME eMail Address?
Appreciate your Replys and Feedback...

kimallen40 wrote:
The websites that she has signed up to I have logged in and there is no message asking for email verification which suggests she is receiving emails.
If they could sign in using an email address that isn't verified then all the website owner has is her word that she is receiving their emails. Besides, if there had been a verification email for these sites, you would have seen it too; which suggests that there wasn't.
Once you get the password changed they will not be able to receive any email from the account, even if they do now. That may not be the end of the problem, however, as there would still be nothing to prevent them from continuing to use the address to sign up on websites that don't verify the address. If it persists, you may have to either create a new iCloud account in order to get a new email address, or create an alias address to use within the existing iCloud account and stop using your main address for email. Then you can set up an email rule on icloud.com that sends email from the main addres to the trash where it is deleted 30 days later. This explains how to create an alias address: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1a490a. This explains how to set up an email rule: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1a3f8a. Good luck.

Someone keeps trying or has been using my email address to sign up for all kinds of accounts. What can I do?

I have had this email address since apple offered family accounts for me.com. For the past 4 years, someone has been using my email to sign up for accounts. They have repeatedly tried to reset my password. I keep getting emails from companies. I have been very nice and responded back to personal emails telling them that they must have typed in the wrong address. I have emailed different companies asking them to delete any and all accounts using my email address for me.com or icloud.com. This person has even been using my email to use to turn in her homework on turnitin.com. I have asked them to please alert the school to let the person know that this is not their address and please not to use it. I have recently discovered that they are trying daily to reset my password. Is there anything I can do besides changing my email?

OMG, there is someone else who is experiencing this? I swear, I have used up all patience and trying to be kind when dealing with this.
I created my primary email account [email protected] a very long time ago. Of course, it morphed into [email protected] and most recently into [email protected]. This behavior occurs with all three variations, but most often with the "@me.com" address. In trying to understand the timeline, I figured it started occurring about the time of the iOS release 5.
I get approximately 10 account creation emails a week. Mine range from harmless to education to medical to ****. At one time I was getting as many as a hundred a week! I also send very politely worded emails to the companies explaining that someone tried to sign up with one of the variations of my emails and ask them to delete any or all accounts associated with them. Unless of course, they are ones that I want to keep.
The problem with telling companies to delete the accounts is that it is now sitting out there for someone to setup the account AGAIN. I have started simply requesting a new password or password reset, change the public facing data and leave it be. This will only work with accounts that require email validation, though. I have stumbled upon accounts while trying to create my own! Again, I simply change the public facing info and password and email. It then becomes mine. I've had a couple of accounts - a Disney site - that won't reset the password or delete the accounts because I can only validate the email address and none of the other account info! Sigh.
I have worked with Apple many times, sometimes for many hours trying to resolve this issue. Apple tends to be myopic and generally sticks with "someone just mistyped the email"... but it happens much too frequently for this to be true. I know it is a popular and coveted email address and perhaps people think they can force the company to recognize it as their own. I've also had requests for the Apple accounts to be reset.
Recently had an interesting chat on Apple's Messages with an 8 year old who swears that it is her friend's iChat account. She admonished me to be nicer if I was sharing it with her friend. I couldn't make her understand that her friend was incorrect in believing it was hers.
I see that you've written your message way back in February and I see no other follow ups. Have you been successful in making this stop?

HT5624 Someone I don't know is using my email address as their Apple ID to sign and purchase apps ect and I keep getting notifications in my emails. How do I stop them from using my email address????????

Someone I don't know is using my email address as their Apple ID to sign and purchase apps ect and I keep getting notifications in my emails. How do I stop them from using my email address????????

If a person is using your email address, you should change your email password and make sure there aren't any forwards to some strange email address.
An example if you were using gmail, under account settings, a forward can be set up to send messages to another email address.
If your email address is say, you own domain, such as somename@somename dot com, make sure the forwards are forwards you set up.
If your email account was hacked and the bad guy has access, you need to cut him off, first by changing the password and second cut off any message forwarding to the bad guy if he set it up. Just changing the password would keep a bad guy out, but if the bad guy set up a forward, he will still get your email.
A confirmation from Apple would have come to your email address in order to confirm that Apple ID. If you are getting the other person's purchase notifications, you would have gotten a confirmation of that account from Apple.

HT5622 I keep getting emails stating that my password had been changed but the name attached to the message is not minr but it's my email address. Is someone using my email address to sign into FaceTime or other Apple Programs?

I keep getting emails stating that my password had been changed but the name attached to the message is not minr but it's my email address. Is someone using my email address to sign into FaceTime or other Apple Programs?

Of you're being phished. There are a lot of phishing scams going around right now with bad guys trying to get access to apple ID's.
Anytime you want to verify the info, do not click on any links in the mail, but open up iTUnes on your computer and check things out that way.
If you want to verify if anything is wrong http://www.apple.com/support/appleid/contact/
contact apple on your own and see what they say.

When I login on my When I sign in to a site on my ipad using my email address as ID a short cut of my email address comes up. How can I get rid of it?

When I sign in to a site on my iPad using my email address as ID a short cut of my email address comes up. How can I get rid of it?

You can edit keyboard shortcuts in Settings>General>Keyboard>Shortcuts>Edit.

Someone used my email address to create an apple id. I changed the password because it is freaking me out. I want to report it to Apple but dont know how to go about it. I want the Apple ID deleted. How do I go about that?

Someone used my email address to create an Apple ID. I logged in to appleid.apple.com and I changed the password because it is freaking me out. I want to report it to Apple but dont know how to go about it. I want the Apple ID deleted. How do I go about that? Is there also a way to ensure that the email address wont be used again by this person to create another Apple ID?
This is compounded actually by a Gmail issue. I have had this email address for ages, since the start of the beta. But lately in the last year or so, I am getting mail that seems to be intended for other people but it is using my email address. It is probably one of them who created the Apple ID.

Contact iTunes support: https://getsupport.apple.com/Issues.action

I am trying to change my email address for an Apple ID and it is saying that it is already in use. I then sign in with that Apple ID and it says that the account is not set up yet, I don't want to set up the account, but I do want to use the email address

I am trying to change my email address for an Apple ID and it is saying that it is already in use. I then sign in with that Apple ID and it says that the account is not set up yet, I don't want to set up the account, but I do want to use the email address in my original Apple ID! HELP!

Welcome to the Apple community.
Once you have created a rescue address, you cannot delete it, nor can you change it to the same address as used by your ID. There are numerous providers you can get additional email addresses from, such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Google etc etc.

I have an account but cannot sign in. I use my email address and password. Thanks, Cutnsew

I have an account but cannot sign in. I use my email address and password. Thanks, Cutnsew

Hi Cutnsew,
Sorry to hear about the login problem. The resolution depends on the error you're getting. If it's more like a username/password issue, you can retrieve that by choosing Forgot password option.
Let me know if there's any other error message.
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Someone in Australia was using my email address and when I changed email names to reinstall Itunes it only gives me states from Australia. Is there some cache on my system that should be cleared or removed?

Someone in Australia was using my email address and when I changed email names to reinstall Itunes it only gives me states from Australia. Is there some cache on my system that should be cleared or removed?

Good luck. I have been trying to report to Apple Support about a Bogus Email I received today, which said I had made a purchase. Naturally, I was to cancel this bogus purchase by giving out personal details etc to them.
The real question is: how did they get my email as someone who had purchased from Itunes?. I cannot believe that ti si coincidence.
HAVE the Australian Apple IDs [where users have supplied their email addresses] been compromised?
My report about Spam was the same as reported in 2010, when the reply was: Apple knows all about this. What has been done about that spam from this address:
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